Fellow Felon Letter #12 — New Years Resolution

Hello Fel­low Felons,

Hun­gry.  That’s how I feel.  I’m not calmed by the hum­ble yet impor­tant suc­cess we had in 2010.  I’m ignited and burn­ing the last fumes we gath­ered from the sup­port we got on the road, online, or at home.  Don’t you feel it?  Every­where I look peo­ple are gear­ing up to accom­plish some­thing they’ve never done and in doing so; becom­ing some­thing they’ve never been.  I’m almost vio­lent in my excite­ment for this year.  I want to scream down the paved rivers from inside The Great White Whale and kick down the doors of the peo­ple who want to “stay in tonight” or “get it done next week”.  I want a com­mu­nity I can believe in.

After being awarded 3 best album of 2010’s (Await­ing The Flood, Amer­i­cana Rock Mix, CT Scenic), and some recent love from The New Haven Reg­is­ter, we’re left to humbly accept before we aim to inspire more peo­ple.  We don’t take the atten­tion we’ve got­ten lately lightly.  So last week, we were in the stu­dio with Jacob Eli Gold­man (pro­duced all theAero­plane, 1929 records and Jeff Tay­lor’s lat­est record) to record our 3rd album.  We recorded 4 songs in 4 days and it should be mixed by the end of the month.  We don’t have a title for the EP yet but we know the song’s names: “Can’t Be Your Friend”, “On My Way to Hell”, “Sin­is­ter Things”, “Love on The Loose”.

Songs For Cow­ards took one and a half years, Gold Liq­uid Mis­chief took 7 months, this one is on course to tak­ing up just 1 month.  We are becom­ing more efficient!

There is not much to say about how the new album sounds except that it doesn’t have any acoustic gui­tar in it.  That’s right, we’ve aban­doned folk arrange­ments, but not the folk spirit.

I hope those of you who responded to our hol­i­day email and recieved a gift from us in the mail enjoyed your present.  Stay in touch for more gifts to come.

Gifts:

This month we have two videos to send you and a list of the 10 best songs that influ­enced Side­walk Dave in 2010.

1. Unre­leased song: “Cayenne”.  It won’t make this album but it will surely make the next release. Watch it here.

2. The best of 2010 list of songs that was pub­lished by The New Haven Reg­is­ter.  I’m sure you don’t want to just read the list, so The New Haven Reg­is­ter decided to put music videos and sam­ples of all the songs that were listed!  Go here to read it, watch it, hear it.

3. Per­sonal google map of our show sched­ule.  This way if we’re in your neck of the woods all you have to do is click on the show tab in your area to get all the details! Check it out here.

4. Drunken busi­ness exec­u­tive danc­ing to Side­walk Dave song. Watch here.

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Side­walk Dave hand made posters:

Show Sched­ule: Click Here

Stay Brave,

–Side­walk Dave